Smithsonian Magazine10h
The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
The Atlantic9d
A Revelatory Way of Understanding the Black Experience
Perry’s wide-ranging study seems to take inspiration from blues music, a genre that melds Black suffering with Black pride. And as I read the book ... to both Black and white folklore; the ...
The New York Times27d
A Black History of the Color Blue
By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. BLACK IN BLUES ... donned by Democratic white women in somewhat hollow ...
Iowa Public Radio24d
A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history
In her new book, Black in ... precocious white woman plantation owner, and realizing that she struggled with the cultivation of indigo until an unnamed Black person was brought to teach her ...
New York Post24d
NY Magazine ripped for cropping black people from Trump party cover photo — claiming ‘almost everyone is white’
Critics slammed New York Magazine for cropping black people out ... was almost entirely white. The magazine’s cover story this week, titled “The Cruel Kids’ Table” and penned by Brock ...
Forbes28d
Book Review: Amor Towles’s Excellent ‘Table For Two’
All the spectacular 19 th century Russian culture came to mind while reading Amor Towles’s newest book, Table for Two ... Long lines for a black loaf of bread, but only a black loaf of bread.
RealClearMarkets27d
Book Review: Amor Towles Triumphs With 'Table for Two'
All the spectacular 19th century Russian culture came to mind while reading Amor Towles’s newest book, Table for Two ... Long lines for a black loaf of bread, but only a black loaf of bread.
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself from most librarians. She stood out for other ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org24d
A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history
Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to... A new book explains what the color blue can teach ...
People10d
What Really Happened During the Black Hawk Down Incident? Inside the Real-Life Combat Mission Gone Wrong Revisited in Surviving Black Hawk Down
Bowden’s reporting in his book, Black Hawk Down, places those figures ... came after two days of intense negotiations between the White House and Aidid’s aides. Both U.S. officials and Aidid ...
Alaska Dispatch News5d
Book review: Dot Bardarson nostalgically revisits her young family’s 1960s cannery summers
She also photographed and made films during that time and includes in her book black-and-white and color photos as well as a few reproductions off her watercolor paintings. Those five years were ...